1949 McCourt returned to the United States

1970 McCourt began teaching at Seward Park High School, wich sat in the midst of dilapidated
tenement buildings on Manhattan’s Lower Easr Side.

1981 McCourt knew that he was still holding back and before, ha had done it out of respect for
his mother

1994 McCourt sat down and read his back’s new opening

1996 McCourt received an excited call from his agent

1997 McCourt learned thatAngela’s Ashes had received America0s most coveted literary award:
The Pulizter Prize